Introduction
Taylor Griffin
My name is Taylor Griffin and I am a second year student at the Harris School of Public Policy. Prior to Harris,I served as a Teach for America Corp member.As a Teach for America Corps member, I was challenged to think critically about policies and practices that disproportionately harmed already vulnerable communities. I realized that access and opportunity do not look the same in every community. If we compare educational inequity to a foot race, all students would participate in the competition, but would not line up at the same starting point. Thus, the fight towards achieving educational equity drives my goal: to increase access to excellent and equitable education for students of color in low-income communities. While attending the Harris School of Public Policy, I’ve become a critical consumer and careful producer of descriptive statistics. The Harris School curriculum has strengthened my quantitative skills and pushed me to provide data-driven answers to complex questions.
Goals for the Quarter
- Learn and understand the syntax of different packages in R
- Learn how to troubleshoot errors and research solutions
- Learn how to clean and manipulate data
- Become proficient in data visualization packages like ggplot2
Programming Courses
| Previous Courses | Future Courses |
|---|---|
| Econometrics I & II | Data Skills for Public Policy |
| Introduction to Programming in Python | Machine Learning |